Jail for ‘county lines’ dealers

Three callous people traffickers who used children to work as ‘county lines’ drug mules were jailed for a total of 12 and a half years. Dean Alford, 25, Michael Karemera, 25, and Glodi Wabelua, 25, recruited youngsters from schools to expand their illicit empire across London, Kent and Hampshire. Police arrested 15 children before finally snaring the ringleaders in September 2014. The arrests and dawn raids were made as part of Operation Pibera targeting the gang, involving at least 250…